[jdom-interest] don't validate comments

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 11:36 AM +0100 12/5/02, Christian Peter wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I get a org.jdom.IllegalDataException telling me that "Comments 
>cannot contain double hyphens (--)", which doubtlessly is true
>(if you are interested, http://www.nasa.org causes the exception).
>
>However, I need to parse this document and since I'm not interested 
>in the comments, I would like JDOM to simply ignore the content of a 
>comment. I thought I can achieve this by setting 
>DOMBuilder.setValidation to false, but I still get this Exception.
>

You are confusing validation with well-formedness checking. 
Validation is optional. Well-formedness checking is not. The document 
you are trying to parse is malformed. JDOM correctly refuses to work 
with it. You must fix the document before JDOM or any other XML tool 
will accept it.
-- 

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